EditorialRound Galingale and Cats-tail Galingale. Botanical drawing and text description. The word galangal, or its variant galanga, can refer in common usage to four plant species all in the Zingiberaceae (ginger family). The herball or Generall historie of pl...
EditorialChinese cassia or Chinese cinnamon, Cinnamomum cassia, and greater galangal, Alpinia galanga. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was ...
EditorialGreater or Thai galangal, Alpinia galanga, showing flowers, berries, leaves and rhizome root. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Med...